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NOSE TO NOSE AND HAND TO HAND IN COURTEOUS SALUTATION
| This form of greeting, which takes the place of the kiss — the latter a salute unknown or despised over nearly half the world, by Polynesians, Mongols, and Malays — is often incorrectly described as "rubbing noses," whereas the nostrils are in reality pressed together; the essential fundamental distinction being between smelling and tasting, in primeval origins of these two salutations |